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- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
their respective sectors and possible solutions,” says Diagne. The discussions with the public and private sectors were instrumental in creating an inclusive mechanism and enabled Diagne to quickly grasp the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
fellows—are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
passions. I received a concurrent MBA/MPA from HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School and was interested in working at the intersection of multiple sectors to address societal challenges and realize our society’s potential. I also had... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Article
Private Enterprise for Public Health
By: Michael Chu and David E. Bloom
By many measures, the world today is a healthier place than ever before, yet a daunting set of deficits and disparities remains to be tackled. For various reasons, it is not clear that the traditional tandem of government and civil society are up to those challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Public Sector; Private Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Chu, Michael, and David E. Bloom. "Private Enterprise for Public Health." Global Investor (Credit Suisse) (February 2012), 14–16.
- Profile
Lindsay Steinmetz
differing contexts. I also knew a degree from HBS would give me a network and foundation for stability in the future. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals and career path? My experience actually reinforced my desire to continue in the View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
gave up. What are your post-HBS plans? I plan to stay in this sector my entire life. I’d like to use Catalyst Alliance as a means to attract more MBAs into social nterprise — I want to contribute to making... View Details
- 2002
- Report
Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise
By: Lynn S. Paine and other contributors
Paine, Lynn S., and other contributors. "Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise." Report, Conference Board, November 2002.
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
What Do Private Firms Look Like?
By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
Private firms in the U.S. are not subject to public reporting requirements, so relatively little is known about their characteristics and behavior—until now. This Data Appendix describes a new database on private U.S. firms, created by Sageworks Inc. in cooperation... View Details
Keywords: Data and Data Sets; Behavior; Public Sector; Corporate Disclosure; Private Sector; Financial Statements; United States
Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "What Do Private Firms Look Like?" 2011.
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
(MBA 2009) IDinsight — SEF 2012 honoree IDinsight aims to transform how the global social sector innovates, learns, and improves by giving its practitioners impact-measurement tools to continually improve... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunity to create and spread innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. In doing so, they joined a groundswell of interest in social entrepreneurship. Just as entrepreneurs spot missed opportunities in business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
Marcus “I came to HBS to explore ways in which the social sector intersects with business. This year I’m taking Leading Social Enterprise, which has an optional second quarter... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
needs of aging baby boomers and the time being right for consumer-driven health care? Yes. These are people who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s and were very successful in bringing about social change in this country. They know how... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
president of global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return to the medical technology... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- June 2003 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
WWF
By: John A. Quelch
WWF is the best known environmental organization in the world. This case explores the issues WWF currently faces and reviews the organization's partnerships with the private sector. The protagonist, Paul Steele, WWF's COO, must decide which of three potential private... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "WWF." Harvard Business School Case 503-113, June 2003. (Revised July 2004.)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other View Details